Don Curtis, a manager
at coal giant Peabody Energy, said his family was lucky.
Not exact matches
ERDOS, China — Shenhua Group Corp., one of China's
coal giants, has built much of its success
at the cost of climate change.
The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser
at the accounting
giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and
coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.
Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a
giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by
coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests
at night.
This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership
at the
giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost
coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.
Given that
coal use by China (and the sources of that
coal) has to be
at the center of any serious discussion of climate progress, it's worth reviewing some rich new contributions to the discussion I initiated on the ethical, economic and climatic issues that arise when
coal flows from rich countries to fast - growing
giants like China.
Credits for using
giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if
at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells,
coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.
He said the energy demands from the
giant LNG plants being built in the state's north would need
at least 100MW of generation and represented the best opportunity for a «resurgence» in
coal fired generation.
In November 2010 PGE announced it was considering «
giant reed grass» to replace
coal at its Boardman facility.
At Bowman Gilfillan, his clients have included the state - owned Airports Company South Africa, the city of Johannesburg, Anglo - Australian mining
giant BHP Billiton and Xstrata
Coal (now part of Glencore).